There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People should say 'no comment' more often. No comment! I love no comment. Let's have more no comment.
We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation.
There comes a place where you need to respect. When people are speaking, you don't comment.
Dealing with negative comments is part of this job, and I've had to develop a thick skin, though some days it's easier than others.
When people blanket a whole class of people with statements, I just think that is unfair to everybody. I could do the same thing about media. I can do the same thing about politicians or lawyers, and they're just never accurate.
'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
I do say things in a way that is going to elicit a response from people.
It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.